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Domain said planes tty in toward a carrier at about 160 miles per hour. When they land they hook onto a thick cable, which brings them to a stop in about half the length of a football field Despite how big aircraft carriers can bo. the runways leave little room for error, and adding to it all, often the ship is moving.

Landing at night is even trickier

“At nighttime it's very, very challenging,” he said.

Donegan's first assignment with the Navy culminated in the 1986 Libyan air strikes, which wen» oniered during increasingly hostile relations with the North African country.

During his tour he graduated from Navy Fighter Weapons

See DONEGAN, Page A8

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